David Braden, MD
Pediatrics · Brookhaven, MSNPI 1689697336
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,902 of the $2,284 with a category attached, or 83.2%. It is spread thinly across 15 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.7% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Among pediatrics clinicians in MS with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 52 payments — averaging $43.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$496
- Philips North America LLC$430
- Hitachi Healthcare Americas Corp.$383
- Irhythm Technologies, Inc.$264
- Boston Scientific$155
- Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc.$120
- plus $437 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,90283%
- Entertainment$38317%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 4 | $496 |
| Philips North America LLC | 13 | $430 |
| Hitachi Healthcare Americas Corp. | 9 | $383 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 6 | $264 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $155 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Bayer | 1 | $88 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $87 |
| Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation | 3 | $80 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $47 |
| Braemar Manufacturing, LLC | 1 | $38 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 2 | $31 |
| Bardy Diagnostics, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Pierre Fabre Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Amgen | 1 | $15 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- AMPLATZER$274
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$145
- Definity$120
- ZIO Patch$102
How this compares
$2,284 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 419 pediatrics providers in Mississippi.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Potassium Chloride | 11 | $229 |
| Topiramate | 15 | $96 |
| Carvedilol | 13 | $38 |
| Fluoxetine Hcl | 13 | $27 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pediatrics in Brookhaven
- Dereck DavisJackson$20K
- Tami BrooksJackson$14K
- Thomas IrelandTupelo$11K
- Denise PowellBay St Louis$7K
- Madelena CampbellGulfport$6K
- Angela OstrowskiGulfport$5K
- Jonathan ShookHattiesburg$5K
- Elizabeth FelderHattiesburg$4K
- Christy JaggersTupelo$4K
- Aprile GilmoreHattiesburg$4K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.